Tag: Java
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MyEclipse + JPA + Spring + Hibernate = DAO (mostly)
I just about have my Google Maps mashup working. When it’s deployed, it’ll show markers for each location where I’ve taught a course. Eventually I’ll filter them by year, connect them to home with polylines, and maybe more. As a mashup, it’s not the most interesting application ever written, but it’s given me a good…
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WebSphere Portal isn’t as horrible as I thought…
I remember several years back I was flipping through the pay cable channels and lucked into a stand-up show by Paul Rodriguez at San Quentin prison. Through the magic of Google, here’s a link to the DVD. The concert was in 1995, apparently, so I guess it really was a while ago. As I recall,…
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The Spring Framework outranks private
I’ve been using the Spring framework for about a year now (or maybe more — it’s amazing how fast time goes by these days). I’ve also been teaching courses in it using Capstone Courseware materials. As is normal with Capstone materials, they tend to skip quickly through the “Hello, World!” version of whatever technology they’re…
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When is EJB not Java EE?
The answer is, when it’s and EJB3 plug-in inside JBoss 4. I’ve been playing with the EJB3 spec a lot recently, especially working with the Java Persistence API (JPA) portion for entities. I’ve said it before here, but I’ll say it again — I really like the way it’s put together. (With one exception, of…
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Persistence providers are not all alike
At the NFJS conference I attended over the weekend, I wound up going to two session by Mark Richards. His topic was the JPA specification as part of the overall EJB3 spec. As I’ve mentioned here, I’m quite interested in that. Will and I just finished an introductory EJB3 course for Capstone where I wrote…
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Playing Games with Martin Fowler
It’s been a very busy week. Will Provost (owner of Capstone Courseware) and I just finished putting together a two-day Introduction to EJB 3.0 course, which took a lot of work, especially because I was teaching a Spring class at the time. That meant late nights and challenges for both of us. I think we…
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Silly Mr. Holland’s Opus question
I recently lucked into another showing of Mr. Holland’s Opus on cable. That movie arguably changed my life and played a major role in my choice of career, but that’s a story for another day. There’s one question that has always bothered me about that movie, though. I thought I’d ask it here, even though…
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Why is @OneToMany so strange?
I’ve been working with EJB3 these days in a big way. I have to say I do like it. One of the reasons is that it’s given me a change to really play with annotations, which I’ve neglected so far. I moved to Java SE 5 some time ago for my regular work. Mostly I…
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Several posts coming soon
I’ve really gotten out of the habit of posting here, but that’s not because I don’t care. It’s mostly because I’m involved in many things at the moment and don’t want to give any of them short shrift in a post. I’ve got to get over that, and I will. The two biggest things going…
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Web Immortality (or, some things never go away)
I didn’t start out as a software instructor, or even in the IT industry at all. My original career was as a research scientist. My first permanent job was investigating the unsteady aerodynamics of axial turbomachines for United Technologies, the parent corporation of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines, among other things. I guess it’s okay…